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CNN, MSNBC guest Mohammed El-Kurd who blasted Israeli 'ethnic cleansing' evicted from Jerusalem home

Justin Baragona
The Daily Beast
Thu, 13 May 2021 17:55 UTC
Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and activist
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Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and activist was evicted from his home in Jerusalem after criticising Israel in several international interviews.
Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and activist who has passionately spoken out against Israel's forced evictions, was forcibly removed from his Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood by Israeli forces on Wednesday — a day after he appeared on CNN and MSNBC and accused Israel of "ethnically cleansing" Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

Cross-border fighting along the Gaza Strip quickly escalated this week after Israeli law enforcement stormed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, wounding over 300 Palestinians. The incident came amidst growing protests over a court case that could see dozens of Palestinians evicted from their East Jerusalem homes.

To address the ongoing violence, El-Kurd granted interviews to several Western media outlets, two of which soon went viral on social media.
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'Completely inappropriate': Top scientists denounce Big Pharma for implying annual Covid booster shots are crucial


RT
Thu, 13 May 2021 18:41 UTC
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More than a dozen influential infectious disease and vaccine experts say the first round of jabs may offer enough protection against Covid-19, refuting Big Pharma's claims that regular shots will "likely" be needed.

In a report on Thursday, Reuters quotes top infectious disease and vaccine-development experts as saying that the first round of inoculation with vaccines against the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants may be adequate to offer enduring protection.

The scientists also expressed concern that it's the pharmaceutical executives rather than health specialists who are shaping public expectations around booster shots.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in April that people would "likely" need a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated, adding that yearly vaccinations would possibly be necessary.

Comment: You can be certain that at some point in the future, the "experts" in the gov/media will all be telling people to get their yearly Covid shots.

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'We need to ensure girls are included': Senator shuns 'constantly changing judgment of today's cancel culture' in transgender row


RT
Thu, 13 May 2021 18:35 UTC
trans athlete
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A US senator in Ohio, where new bills are proposing to ban transgender athletes from competing in high school and college sports, has described the treatment of Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner as a product of cancel culture.

Senator Kristina Roegner said that her own three daughters, who are all junior athletes, had given her a keener appreciation of why parents would be concerned about their offspring competing against much larger transgender participants who had been born male.

Lawmakers have introduced the bills in the house and senate in the state, where supporters of the Save Women's Sports Act say they must be brought in to make sport fair.
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Liberty King: Florida governor to pardon everyone in state charged with breaking Covid restrictions


RT
Thu, 13 May 2021 18:22 UTC
Ron DeSantis
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced he will pardon all Floridians who have been legally charged for breaking coronavirus restrictions on mask wearing and social distancing, arguing guidelines should be advisory.

Appearing Wednesday on Fox News with Florida gym owners Mike and Jillian Carnevale, who were arrested on several occasions and threatened with months in prison for allowing people to enter their business without a face mask, DeSantis said he would overrule the "total overreach" against them.

"This is exactly what we ordered against last summer, many months ago," the governor declared, before announcing that "effective tomorrow morning" he would "sign a reprieve under my constitutional authority" that would "delay the case for sixty days."
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Former top military brass question 2020 election result, Biden's health

Samuel Chamberlain and Emily Jacobs
NY Post
Wed, 12 May 2021 18:10 UTC
biden
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Retired generals and admirals penned an open letter questioning the 2020 presidential election result and President Joe Biden’s current state of health.
More than 120 retired generals and admirals have published an open letter questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election as well as President Biden's fitness to be commander-in-chief.

The letter, first reported by Politico, bears the heading of a group calling itself "Flag Officers 4 America" and says the United States "is in deep peril," with Americans "in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776."

Among the letter's 126 signatories are retired Rear Adm. John Poindexter, national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan, and retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who spent five years as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush and is now executive vice president of the Family Research Council.

"Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the 'will of the people' our Constitutional Republic is lost. Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen," the letter reads before going on to blast critics of voter ID laws as engaging in a "tyrannical intimidation tactic."

"Additionally, the 'Rule of Law' must be enforced in our election processes to ensure integrity," the letter continues. "The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020."
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Merriam-Webster defines 79 percent of Americans as 'anti-vaxxers'

Isaac Schorr
National Review
Wed, 12 May 2021 18:06 UTC
vaccine
© Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Are you now or have you ever been an anti-vaxxer?

Chances are high that the answer is yes if you're using Merriam-Webster's definition of the term: "a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination." (Emphasis added).

A Morning Consult poll from this past December indicated that only 21 percent of Americans would support making the coronavirus vaccines mandatory for adults, rendering a shocking 79 percent of the public "anti-vaxxers."

Observers took notice of the inclusive Merriam-Webster definition on Wednesday, two days after New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared that State University of New York (SUNY) campuses would be requiring vaccination for all students enjoying in-person instruction. "I encourage all private colleges & universities to require vaccinations as well" Cuomo added.

Comment: It's not anti-vax to be against forced vaccinations by the State. It's pro-liberty.

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The Israel narrative is crumbling: Phone cameras and the internet expose the lie

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com
Thu, 13 May 2021 16:51 UTC
israeli settler steal house
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"Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza overnight, most of them in Israeli strikes," reads a new report from AP.

Nine children, killed with the help of United States funding to the tune of $3.8 billion a year.

Remember kids, the US loves Muslims and just wants to protect their human rights.


The Monday night airstrikes were in response to rocket attacks by Gaza resistance groups which had reportedly injured six Israelis, and those rocket attacks were in turn were a response to a deluge of Israeli police brutality footage in Jerusalem in preceding days. Electronic Intifada reports:
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'I watched the terrifying way in which we Judaize the land': an eyewitness account of the Sur Baher home demolitions

Yuval Abraham
Mondoweiss
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:30 UTC
Israel home demolitions

Ismail sits with one of his sons after being thrown out of their home. (Screenshot from Yuval Abraham's film "A Dark Night in Wadi al-Hummus")
Translator's note: Below is the testimony of Yuval Abraham, a filmmaker and journalist, who stayed with a family in Sur Baher the night their home was demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham's account, translated from Hebrew, was originally published on Facebook and addressed to fellow Israeli Jews. The story of Ismail's family, described here through Abraham's eyes, is one of many. That night, 72 other families had their homes demolished by Israeli forces. Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Shor made a short film about these events, available at 972 Magazine: A dark night in Wadi al-Hummus. — Yarden Katz


I'm mentally exhausted. I spent the night in Sur Baher. I saw with my own eyes how they ruined Ismail's life and his home. A gentle man, with kind eyes. He planned every detail in his home. "My dream home," he told me at three o'clock in the morning, before the catastrophe, as his foot was shaking. He kept saying, I wish it won't happen. I wish they won't destroy [my home]. The kitchen cabinets were painted bright pink, the style he loves, that he picked, and the walls of his four-year old daughter were soundproof and insulated, to prevent the room from overheating in the summer. He sent her to sleep at her grandfather's. His other kids were home. Everyone's awake. Scared to death that the monster might come.

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Fire

Firefighting helicopter crash in China kills four

Bill Gabbert
Wildfire Today
Tue, 11 May 2021 12:18 UTC
HELICOPTER

Helicopter crash in China May 10, 2021. Still image from video.
It was attempting to refill its water bucket at a lake

Four were killed Monday May 10 after a helicopter crashed in Erhai Lake in Dali, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Z-8X helicopter operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force had been assisting firefighters on the ground by dropping water with an external bucket. It crashed while attempting to refill at the lake.

Initially it was reported that the two pilots were killed and there were two missing crewmembers. After a search that involved 16 ships and more than 490 rescuers the crewmembers were found deceased about 16 hours later, very early Tuesday morning local time.

Videos show the aircraft start to slowly rotate or spin while it was a couple of hundred feet above the lake before the bucket was lowered into the water. The spin increased in speed and the helicopter descended, then there is an explosion that sends debris flying before the helicopter hits the water.

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Info

Texas officials back pardoning Floyd for 2004 drug arrest

Juan A. Lozano
My Northwest
Tue, 11 May 2021 12:53 UTC
floyd mural
© REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Top leaders in the Texas county where George Floyd grew up supported a resolution Tuesday calling for him to be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 drug arrest by a former Houston police officer now facing murder charges in a separate case.

The five members of Harris County Commissioners Court unanimously approved the resolution in support of the pardon request, which was submitted last month to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board still must decide whether to recommend a pardon, and Gov. Greg Abbott will have the final say.

"I think this is a phenomenal opportunity to fix a miscarriage of justice in George's case," Tera Brown, a cousin of Floyd, told commissioners before they approved the resolution.

Comment: The lionization of St. George Floyd continues unabated. Of course Floyd didn't deserve to die, but all evidence points to the fact that he wasn't exactly a model citizen. No need to paint him as such in retrospect.

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